Join Us
We rely on our volunteers to help our community prevent, prepare, respond and recover from emergencies. As well as firefighting, our volunteers attend medical incidents, motor vehicle accidents, severe weather events and other requests for help. We also install and check smoke alarms and help to improve fire safety in our communities.
If you’re a team player and would like to learn new skills while making your community safer, we would love to hear from you.
Mark is an Officer in the Air Force by day. The rest of the time he volunteers with us as a firefighter, driver and pump operator.
“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone in their time of need.”
Different Ways to Volunteer
As a volunteer in the Feilding Brigade, you can choose from one of three different types of roles, all essential to supporting our brigade and strengthening our community.
Firefighters
Volunteer firefighters respond to a range of incidents and are often the first to the scene of an emergency. Fires make up about a third of call-outs with most incidents being medical emergencies and motor vehicle accidents. Volunteers will also search for and rescue missing people and deal with dangerous substances, weather events and natural disasters.
All our volunteer firefighters are trained as medical co-responders, and to do their jobs safely and effectively. As well as technical skills, they are taught other valuable skills such as teamwork and leadership.
Operational Support
Operational support volunteers respond to emergencies by supporting firefighters and medical first responders at incidents. They carry out tasks to help keep our Fire and Emergency people and the public safe at an incident. For example, managing traffic and pedestrians, closing roads, transporting equipment and providing lighting and refreshments. Operational support volunteers receive relevant training for their role. Some are also trained as medical co-responders.
Brigade support
Not all volunteers respond to incidents. Brigade support volunteers are key to the success of our brigade, they complete administrative tasks and other duties that keep the brigade running smoothly. They may also work with communities helping them to reduce the risk of fire in homes. Volunteering in a brigade support role may be ideal for someone who wants to be involved but doesn’t want a frontline role.
Make friends for life
“Joining a Brigade not only gives you skills and confidence you won’t find anywhere else, but it gives you great friends who always have your back” – Jono Bunn
Firefighter Georgia McKay and Operational Support Lola Christian
“Joining the Brigade has been a lifelong dream for me. I am grateful that I can volunteer to keep my community safe” – Lola.
Apply to become a Volunteer
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Register your interest today and find out!
Your application will be kept on file until a vacany becomes available. At this time our recruitment commitee will short list the available applicants and make contact as required.